Abstract: The invention relates to libraries of cyclic organic compounds and method of producing and assaying such libraries. According to the invention, each cyclic organic compound is constructed from a starting material in the form of a solid surface derivatized with a starting resin. Compounds are reacted with the resin to add or to form a cyclic group. The reactions are preferable carried out using a split resin procedure so that different compounds can be reacted with a plurality of subamounts so as to increase the size of the library. For example, compounds are reacted with a solid support bound starting resin to obtain a compound which includes an aldehyde functional group wherein the aldehyde compound or compounds reacted with it have substituents which are varied such that a mixture of products is obtained.

Abstract: A solid-phase method for the synthesis of N-substituted oligomers, such as poly (N-substituted glycines) (referred to herein as poly NSGs) is used to obtain oligomers, such as poly NSGs of potential therapeutic interest which poly NSGs can have a wide variety of side-chain substituents. Each N-substituted glycine monomer is assembled from two "sub-monomers" directly on the solid support. Each cycle of monomer addition consists of two steps: (1) acylation of a secondary amine bound to the support with an acylating agent comprising a leaving group capable of nucleophilic displacement by --NH.sub.2, such as a haloacetic acid, and (2) introduction of the side-chain by nucleophilic displacement of the leaving group, such as halogen (as a solid support-bound .alpha.-haloacetamide) with a sufficient amount of a second sub-monomer comprising an --NH.sub.2 group, such as a primary amine, alkoxyamine, semicarbazide, acyl hydrazide, carbazate or the like.